Bournemouth’s high speed internet sewers.

Bournemouth’s high speed internet sewers.

May 8, 2016

Over the next few months, H20 intends to announce the names of several towns it will link up with high speed internet capabilities of up to 100Mbps.

The first recipient of these super fast cable links will be Bournemouth, with work set to begin before the end of the year.

H20 does not intend to dig up the streets to lay its cables; instead, it will run them inside the sewer system, reaching nearly ninety thousand homes in the Dorset town.

The company believes that the project, costing £30 million, will drastically increase users’ connection speeds, by perhaps as much as several hundred Mbit/s.

One of the big attractions to local councils is the lack of disruption that would normally be associated with such a major project.

Running the cables through the cities’ sewers means that large scale disruption to traffic and noise pollution can be totally avoided.

For H20 it also translates into massive saving, because the cables can be laid for a fraction of the cost and much faster than by traditional methods.

Although not a totally new venture, the new plans intend to expand on the company’s already installed, sewer enabled network, which reaches large numbers of educational establishments and businesses, so that they may now include household consumers.

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, seems to be in favour of this method of connecting houses and businesses, and is investigating the sewers for more widespread cable laying use.

In the UK, there are in excess of a third of a million miles of sewage tunnels that offer the opportunity of environmentally friendly and faster distribution of high speed cabling.

That could help the UK to catch up with other nations that are winning the internet speed race.

Tim Yeo

Related Posts

Blyk launches info site for advertisers

Comments Off on Blyk launches info site for advertisers

UPA to develop Interop 2008 Certification

Comments Off on UPA to develop Interop 2008 Certification

Telecom Austria grabs 70% of MDC

Comments Off on Telecom Austria grabs 70% of MDC

Firecomms announce plastic optical fiber plans

Comments Off on Firecomms announce plastic optical fiber plans

Internet censorship wave by government in China

Comments Off on Internet censorship wave by government in China

Orange selects Ad Infuse for mobile marketing

Comments Off on Orange selects Ad Infuse for mobile marketing

Bluetooth Will Become All Things to all Users

Comments Off on Bluetooth Will Become All Things to all Users

ZTE secures China Mobile expansion contract

Comments Off on ZTE secures China Mobile expansion contract

Growth of e-shopping in Belarus

Comments Off on Growth of e-shopping in Belarus

O2 announces UK 3G iPhone prices

Comments Off on O2 announces UK 3G iPhone prices

Copper broadband speeds could hit 50Mb/s

Comments Off on Copper broadband speeds could hit 50Mb/s

FTTH changing to FTEH

Comments Off on FTTH changing to FTEH

Create Account



Log In Your Account